Welcome to Year 1
Teachers: Miss Bellerby and Mr Smith
Teaching Assistants:
Miss Dott and Mrs Steel
Spring Term
Our topic this term is: Toy Story
Key concepts being taught this term:
Literacy
Reading
Decoding, blending and grapheme recognition.
Making predictions in response to text and relate these to personal experiences.
Writing
Using capital letters and full stops to demarcate sentences.
Joining words and clauses using the conjunction 'and'.
Using cursive writing for lower case letters and forming capital letters.
Saying sentences out loud in preparation for writing.
Re-read own writing out loud.
Numeracy
Place Value
One more and one less within 100.
Number recognition to 100.
The Four Operations
Reinforcing addition and subtraction,
Introduction of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Fractions
Finding a half of a set of objects and shapes.
Geometry
Recognising and naming 2D and 3D shapes.
Measurement
Time, learning the days of the week and months of the year.
Science
Various properties of materials.
Plants
Computing
e-safety
Coding
Art
Drawing skills - line, tone and texture
Painting skills - colour mixing
Famous Artists - Hockney
Music
Listening to music to discuss changes in pulse and rhythm.
Sing melodies tunefully.
Changing tempo and dynamics
Technology
Creating sliders and levers to make moving story characters
Geography
Talking about our environments as well as physical and human features.
History
Comparing old and new toys
P.E and Games
Gymnastics and Athletics
R.E. and PSHCE
Christian celebrations and keeping safe
P.E. is on Monday and Tuesday. Please ensure that NO earrings are worn on these days.
Homework is given out on Thursday and is due in on Tuesday.